England, Australia, South Africa
15 June 1909
The Imperial Cricket Conference was founded on 15 June 1909 at Lord's, London, by England, Australia and South Africa — the three Test-playing nations. It became the ICC, first governing body of world cricket.
England, Australia, South Africa
1909-06-15
On 15 June 1909, representatives of the MCC, the Australian Cricket Board and the South African Cricket Association met at Lord's and founded the Imperial Cricket Conference, the body that became the International Cricket Council. The proposal had been pushed for two years by South African mining magnate Abe Bailey; it created the first international cricket governing structure.
South Africa, England, Australia
1909-12-01
After their breakthrough 1907 tour of England, South Africa's googly quartet — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — anchored the side through the 1909-10 home Tests against England (won 3-2 by South Africa) and the 1910-11 tour of Australia. Vogler took 36 wickets in the 1909-10 home series; Faulkner emerged as the world's best all-rounder by 1910.
Australia, England
1909-08-31
Montague 'Monty' Noble played 42 Tests for Australia between 1898 and 1909, captaining 15 of them and winning eight. A medium-paced bowler whose 'spin-swerve' (an early form of off-cutting in-swinger) and a top-order batsman, he scored 1,997 Test runs at 30.25 and took 121 Test wickets at 25. He led Australia to the Ashes win at home in 1907-08 and the away win in 1909.
England, Australia
1909-08-11
Monty Noble's Australians won the 1909 Ashes 2-1 in England, the first Australian series win in England since 1902. Warren Bardsley scored 136 and 130 in the drawn fifth Test at The Oval (9-11 August 1909), becoming the first cricketer ever to make a century in each innings of a Test match. Australia's pace bowler Tibby Cotter and all-rounder Warwick Armstrong led the tour averages.
Warwickshire
1909-07-01
Frank Foster, the left-arm fast-medium bowler and middle-order batter from Birmingham, made his Warwickshire first-class debut in 1908. By the close of 1909 he was establishing himself as one of the most promising young all-rounders in England — the foundation for the career that would, two years later, deliver Warwickshire its first county championship and, on the 1911-12 Ashes tour, the new-ball partnership with S.F. Barnes that won the Ashes.